In 1992 when
Roe v. Wade
again came before the Supreme Court, 19 years after
the Court had found abortion rights in the
Constitution, the Justices cast aspersions upon the
original decision. Nevertheless, the Court upheld
the poor reasoning of its predecessor on the grounds
that after so many years women had acquired
squatter`s rights to abortions. The
plurality opinion found that
"an entire
generation has come of age free to assume
Roe`s
concept of liberty in defining the capacity of women
to act in society, and to make reproductive
decisions."

In other words, an incorrect
ruling had been sanctified by the passage of time
and belonged to women under the doctrine of adverse
possession.

The Supreme Court did not see
fit to save prayer in public schools with the same
reasoning, although the people had had rights of
adverse possession to school prayer much longer than
women had exercised abortion rights under the
original Roe
v. Wade decision.

The 1992 decision upholding
Roe v. Wade on the basis of rights exercised over a generation
establishes a precedent that makes it impossible for
courts ever to overturn the Second Amendment.
Americans have exercised the right to be armed from
the first day of origin of the
United States.

Nevertheless the Second
Amendment is no more safe than the First or any
other. The US Constitution ceased to be a
controlling document when Americans gave up the
belief that
"the ends do not justify the means."

Causes have become more
important than rights. We are urged to do something
about "gun
violence," the
Constitution be damned. To be safe from
terrorists, we must set aside
habeas corpus.
To prevent the First Amendment from undermining
military aggression, reporters must be embedded in
the military so they can be censored.

It is inappropriate for me to
review a book that cites me in the index and bases
two of its chapters on The New Color Line by Lawrence Stratton and
myself. I will refrain from doing so, but I will say
that Who
Killed The Constitution is more than a rant. The
chapter on federal prosecution of people who
exercised their rights under
California
law to medical marijuana is worth the price of the
book.

As Stratton and I show in our
book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions,
law is no longer a
shield of the people. Chasing after devils in the
name of good causes has turned law in
America
into a discretionary weapon in the hands of police
and prosecutors. No one is safe.

Falling afoul of the law is a
random process that can affect the innocent as well
as the guilty. Sometimes classes of people are
persecuted when advocacy groups succeed in hyping
new crimes. "Child advocates" succeed in creating hysteria about child sex
abuse, and day care centers across the country were
framed in orchestrated wrongful prosecutions.

The
"repressed
memory" movement launched another witch-hunt
across America that
destroyed families and sent parents and grandparents
to prison for crimes that never happened. In his
recently published book, Try To Remember,
Dr. Paul R. McHugh,
University Distinguished Service Professor of
Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine, tells the story of the
fraudulent cult of
"recovered
memory."

Today it is routine for
Americans to be convicted on the basis of
prosecutors paying witnesses-for-hire for false and
perjured testimony.

Americans today are overwhelmed
with injustices and lies. Most prosecutions are
wrongful, because police and prosecutors have
discovered that it is easier to frame the guilty
than to convict them on the evidence. Most crimes
are "solved"
by the police picking a defendant and the prosecutor
piling on charges until the defendant is coerced
into a plea bargain.

The
United States
government in the 21st century has wasted $3
trillion on wars based on lies and fabrications.
This is the behavior of a government that is
essentially bankrupt and is unable to attend to the
health care of its population. Wars against
fabricated enemies became the most important order
of business for
America
in the first decade of the 21st century.

It is not only the Constitution
that is dead in America, but
also respect for truth. In place of honest
reporting, the media provides spin to benefit the
government or some interest group.